So just watching Gerry Harvey boast about how sales are up due to Covid-19.
What a low-life…..if you don’t already, just avoid HN
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/finance/busines…
Gerry Harvey - What an Nob
Numpty21 on 23/03/2020 - 00:34
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Was he around for the Spanish flu? This guy is a survivor, but I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch Gerry.
He was quoting Andrew Bolt … so that tells you what kind of tool he really is
We need people like this to be in the front line. Let's give him a medal, and put him on the front line to help.
The irony of posting a News Corp website seems lost to you if your focus is integrity.
Australia is controlled by Fox News aka Newscorp.
Meh, a business owner is glad sales are doing well, what's new.
Yeah. I'm not sure how people panic buying freezers is his problem. What's he supposed to do - turn them away?
You are missing the point. Not begrudging him making a dollar.
It is his prickish comments like this, "“Why are we so scared about getting this virus?… There’s pretty much nothing to get scared of." To date 335k people have contracted this illness and nearly 15k people have died.
I would liked to have seen some humanity from the guy, but he loves being a contrarian. So (profanity) him.
@HighAndDry: Sigh, don't be a simpleton HighAndDry… this is a guy who is in the public eye who is making comments that directly go against ALL accepted advice from epidemiologists, so he is being a problem.
If anyone out there is influenced by him and dont practice social distancing correctly then his words can cause actual harm.
The richer one gets, the less empathy one has.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce…Not sure what that has to do with the article. He's just happy his business is doing well and trying to stay positive despite the coronavirus situation.
It sounds like you're wealthy :-P
Not financially :D
He's saying there's nothing to worry about with regards to this virus - completely bereft of a moral compass. The toll this virus will have on the economy, the aged, the sickly, the less wealthy - it's horrendous and anyone down-talking it should be ashamed of themselves.
He just seemed… detached from reality. It was kind of surreal watching that.
Been detached for a while.
When he was trying to get the GST on imports he went on radio to say if you want cheap stuff just get duty free the next time you're in New York.
And online shopping? Just send the store a fax.
He is just saying
That He lived through the Spanish flu and really it was nothingHe would of liked to serve his Country in either the World wars but Bone Spurs
And that he enjoys doing Charity works for the less fortunateLeave Gerry alone
He is just saying
That He lived through the Spanish fluHe's old but not that old, Spanish flu finished in 1920
He's old but not that old
He is so old that his Tax file Number is 2 digits lol
and his IQ is…
Well its easy for him to practice social distancing when he eats on tables like this https://media0.giphy.com/media/l2JegD4skNm30xIju/source.gif
He's a really wealthy man who can socially isolate himself with the finest things in life for years. The rest of us… not so much.
He also sounds like a man who can't do year 8 mathematics and doesn't know what exponential growth is. Hey Gerry, business is great now as people buy freezers and air filters, but the virus is about to bring an economic depression to Australia if it lasts more than a few months. Your customers will suddenly disappear, and you'll be in the media bleating, demanding a government bailout.
He's basically Australia's version of Montgomery Burns.
Mr Burns has some redeeming qualities though.
Gerry Harvey - What an Nob
Nothing new…..
I bet he (80 yrs old) won't be so happy if he picks up the virus.
You expect him to practice what he preaches? He's probably isolated on an island.
and he doesn't to work.
he can sit there in his mansion and money will keep pouring in.Stroking his white cat…
(Edit: Apparently another word for cat is a 'profanity')
What if he's just trying to present an upbeat response to investors? There's nothing wrong with that.
Why did 60 minutes interview him anyway?
Because he's usually good for a quote that gets ratings. You surely don't think anyone working at 48 minutes is motivated by Journalism do you?
He's a useless numpty. I can still remember them promoting themselves as the "technology specialists" and printing receipts on dot matrix sprocket fed printers… Says it all really.
Oh and all that GST we pay on things under $1000? Thanks Gerry you useless sack of crap.
Yeah, nobody likes paying tax and we had a free ride for a long time. It wasn't good for local business though, and not good for the wealth of Australia in general. Gerry didn't close that free ride, he just embarrassed the government into doing it. The gst itself is an unfair tax more worthy of your anger - low income people lose a huge percentage of their income in tax. The more you earn the smaller the percentage of income you pay in tax. It's the majority poor supporting the wealthy few.
The more you earn the smaller the percentage of income you pay in tax.
This is just false.
It's the majority poor supporting the wealthy few.
Also false.
http://theconversation.com/factcheck-is-50-of-all-income-tax…
mate you love misquoting this, and you know better
@[Deactivated]: no we had this clarification of who just makes up this 50% before - you didn't like it then.
mate you love misquoting this, and you know better
gst is a regressive tax, and as time wears on it becomes more regressive - and more expensive to operate.
We have become a tinpot island run by people who couldn't give a damn about the average Australian - climate change, covid, our pollies do nothing to prepare, to defend or to mitigate.
For a secular country I find no leadership of any acceptable kind except that involving prayer…
@petry: Let's clarify
This statement is incorrect:
The more you earn the smaller percentage of your income you pay in tax.This statement is correct:
The more you earn the smaller percentage of your income you pay in GST.GST is indeed a regressive tax that is inherently unfair on the poor - so you need to correctly adjust for that, which the government that introduced it failed to do and all subsequent governments of both stripes also failed to do. See my comment below.
@petry: What?
This is exactly what you wrote.
The more you earn the smaller the percentage of income you pay in tax.
Look at your comment again.
I was generally trying to agree with you and you attack me, classy.
@petry: The one directly under my first one, it's exactly what you said. I pasted that sentence out of your comment!
no we had this clarification of who just makes up this 50% before - you didn't like it then.
Because it was false then, it is still false now.
As false as you telling me I am misquoting because clearly and evidently, I have quoted ad verbum.
You don't seem to be able to see why you are wrong yet you are very opinionated. May I suggest you slow down and first comprehend before making conclusions.
@[Deactivated]: I pointed the errors in the figures before - I ain't doing it again because you love to misrepresent the size of the sample. You like to misrepresent, and you ain't gonna stop.
its a waste of time like your game
I am happy to pay tax and know for a fact that i pay far more than average for my income level. I deliberately chose to NOT take certain deductions because i am not comfortable with them.
I am not happy that the idiot embarrassed the government into "closing the loophole" which wasn't a loophole at all - it was set to prevent the cost of capturing the GST exceeding the actual GST, now we have a system that spends more money than it bring in - slow clap to that you morons. I am well aware that they make other companies collect it - but not everyone does and so people get chased if something comes in and courier companies have to hold it before delivery, etc, etc. Who do you think pays for all of that? We all do unfortunately.
WARNING RANT FOLLOWS
It is true that the GST is a tax that takes a higher percentage of a poorer persons income than a richer persons. However we did raise tax free thresholds to allow for that, all we had to do to make it fair was have automatic indexation of the brackets - instead they legislated a whole bunch of (profanity) RETARDED exceptions in the worst deal ever negotiated by any political party that dramatically increased the cost of compliance, caused massive confusion and didn't help lower income earners in any way whatsoever. I used to like the Democrats until they made that dumbest of all dumb deals, very glad that party died. It was introduced in the year 2000 and it still pisses me off that much!
END OF RANT
He's speaking business. Apparently we were heading for a recession starting sometime this year. This was well known prior to the corona virus outbreak. The virus has those same people believing that we're now going to have a depression. Recession or depression, either way they come about by investors freaking out. Everyone sells their shares - the bottom falls out of the market. Businesses just go bust and cease to exist. Unemployment from all those businesses. Whatever you think of HN, he has always been pro australian. I can imagine he is trying to instill some stability in investor confidence and therefore the sharemarket.
Just paid (another) GST on a UK purchase. I wonder how much he has cost Australia's average Joes like me over the past one and a half years since, his successful whining campaign to bring in GST on overseas purchases…..he says "he's proud to be Australian"….I'm embarrassed HE IS an Australian!
You say he is "pro Australian" - he is pro Harvey Norman and takes care of his own little ditch-water empire at the expense of his workers, staff and customers.
Maybe with his uneducated and reckless views on the corona pandemic, he will be humbled by this fellow-virus, and brought to heel, as justice would dictate.
I thought he said we are the pro’s!
Now he’s saying he’s the pro!!!
I understand what you're trying to say but seeking to make people think that COVID19 isn't serious will have a cost in human lives (which will cost business) far in excess of any share market impact. No matter which way you spin it at this time he's an irresponsible (profanity).
I see shares in his company are down close to 50 % .
Go harvey Go.
lolGerry regrets Australians "now think I'm a heartless, greedy old bastard".
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/celebrity/harvey-regrets-i…
Yep, even in his contrition he seems more interested in his bottom line than the death and doom that surrounds us.
it's pretty obvious that he is the sort that would try and sell 9 fridges at his grandmothers funeral!
Yep I love this quote.
"I gave that interview on Thursday morning. Even when I did it, in the back of my mind I thought, 'Gee this thing is changing very quickly, maybe I should ask for the right to kill the story if things change by Sunday,' but I stupidly went ahead," a contrite Mr Harvey revealed on Wednesday.
Nice try Gerry but there were people dying before Thurs 19th March.
Should let him know we also think he's pretty clueless as well.
I support Gerry.
Gerry is now scared you wont give over your money to him so he is now backflipping on what he really thinks for the greater good of his bank balance
He said something along the lines of 'I don't know what all the fuss is about, the Spanish flu was much worse' and he 'doesn't care about the virus'
Yeah, what a tosser. People are losing their lives while he's raking in the profits.